. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . , slightly interwoven, and is lined generally with barkfibre, grasses, cow-dung, or wool, according to the locality in which it is built. 1 he nestsare variable in size, an average one measuring externally fourteen inches in height by twelveinches in breadth, and across the entrance two inches and a half. In open forest lands it isusually near the extremity of a forked horizontal branch, where several thin leaty twigssprout out, or in a bushy bough, generallv of a Eucalyptus. Inland, the crown, or at the junctionof seve
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . , slightly interwoven, and is lined generally with barkfibre, grasses, cow-dung, or wool, according to the locality in which it is built. 1 he nestsare variable in size, an average one measuring externally fourteen inches in height by twelveinches in breadth, and across the entrance two inches and a half. In open forest lands it isusually near the extremity of a forked horizontal branch, where several thin leaty twigssprout out, or in a bushy bough, generallv of a Eucalyptus. Inland, the crown, or at the junctionof several forked upright branches of the different species of CalUtvis and Acacia, are more ottenresorted to; and in the Upper Clarence District, the Native Quince (Pdalostigma quadnlocnlavc)and a species of Melaleuca are selected. The nests are usually built at a height varying from tento twenty feet, and in some instances as high as forty feet. Between Gunnedah and Narrabn,the nests of this species form a prominent feature in the landscape, a great number of the trees. ^(^^ GRKY-CROWNED CHATTERER. 360 TIMELIIDiE. having one or more nests either perfect or in different stages of dilapidation. While atCopmanhurst, Mr. Clarence Savidge drew my attention to the fact that in many instances thelimbs of trees which contained old nests were either bare of leaves or dead. I have hadfrequent opportunities of observing that several birds often assist in building a nest, and inthe daytime have seen two and sometimes three birds leave one of these structures whenapparently finished. By throwing a stick against the nests, just about dusk, it will bediscovered, too, that one or more are resorted to by several birds as roostmg places. Savidge informed me that many nests are built without ever being laid in, and thatone he had under observation near his house, the birds were engaged in its construction, or inmaking additions to it for a period of si.\ weeks. Out of many nests examined, fo
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